Re: Anyone else experience this bug?

I have been plagued by arbitrary crashes forever. Probably a few times per month. But since I cannot post a repeatable example, I have nothing but sympathy from the forum members. Note though that those members generally do NOT see this issue at all. Craig > On Jan 4, 2023, at 5:20 AM, Sean Co

Re: ChatGPT

Somehow that last was mixed up with the concept of any number being able to be expressed by a string of prime factors. So 77 can be resolved to ’11” and ”7”. “42” by “7’, “3” and”2’. > On Dec 9, 2022, at 4:54 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode > wrote: > > Even more interesting I issued the s

Re: ChatGPT

As Mark said… So if you have, say, 22, which is divisible by the prime “11”, then it is also divisible by 7""??? Craig > On Dec 19, 2022, at 8:10 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 12/18/22 12:15, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> A Twitter thread with ChatGPT botsplain

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

Jbv. "Every ten lines"??? Is your handler using a loop to massage each of those lines? If so update the scrollbar every 10 passes through. So if you are using “repeat with…” you can do something like: repeat with y = 1 to whatever if y mod 10 = 0 then updateYourThingie And if you are using

Re: Lock screen challenge

Jacque. Why aren’t you on the forum? Cant you just loop through each line in your handlers, and find the ones that contain “lock screen”, both with and without the visual effect thing. Search downstream until you find the “unlock” line, That gives you the start and finish lines for each handle

Re: Return of Hilited text of Popup Menu items

Nope Grumman F6F. > On Nov 11, 2022, at 12:03 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Or the greatest WWII fighter plane ever made. > >> On Nov 11, 2022, at 08:56 , Craig Newman via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> And a corsair is what a pirate

Re: Return of Hilited text of Popup Menu items

And a corsair is what a pirate aspires to. Craig > On Nov 11, 2022, at 11:11 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > A Curser is what I was as a sailor. A Cursor is the icon on your monitor that > indicates where the mouse is located. ;-) > > Bob S > > > On Nov 10, 2022, at 18:28 , R

Re: Return of Hilited text of Popup Menu items

Roger. No messages are sent while a menu is open. Further, a “mouseMove” handler in, say, the card script stops receiving messages while that menu is open. Such a gadget, likely drawn by the underlying OS, seems to be blocking. So, I think, no. Craig > On Nov 10, 2022, at 9:28 PM, Roger Guay

Re: ENTER in scripts

Bob S >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Nov 7, 2022, at 13:29 , Ralph DiMola via use-livecode >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well, you learn something exceedingly simple every day. OK I get it. >>>>> Enter is the same as click

Re: ENTER in scripts

All. "Enter" has always worked for me. And focus has always been required to be in the SE for it to do so. This seems logical to me. It would not do for actions specific to certain spaces to be affected, or effected, when not in that space. Craig > On Nov 7, 2022, at 1:07 PM, Martin Koob via

Re: Set behavior of standalone

The script only stack behavior not only should be set before the standalone is built, it must not reside in the executable. Craig > On Oct 18, 2022, at 4:46 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you mean set the behavior *after* creating the standalone, that should > be possible,

Re: Control or right click to show popup menu

Hi. On a new card make a field and a pulldown menu button. Place a few lines of text in the field and lock it. In the field script: on mouseUp set the loc of btn 1 to the mouseloc click at the mouseLoc end mouseUp The menu opens at the line clicked on. This has been discussed extensively in

Re: Weird performance issue

Something weird happened to my post. I modified your handler to access only those stacks that appear when calling the function “the stacks”. In all those cases, the return time was only a few tenths of a second. But “revNaviigator” does not appear on that list. So there must be a longer pathwa

Re: Weird performance issue

Geoff. I get over 5 seconds for the “revNavigatior” So I modified your handler just a bit, to only a But “revNaviigator” does not appear on that list. So there must be a longer pathway for LC to find a stack that certainly must be in memory, but that does not appear in the “stacks” list? Crai

Re: Shouldn't space or enter in a menu select the hilited item?

gt;> hilited item, the hilited item is NOT selected, it retains it's previous >> label. >> >> Bob S >> >> >>> On Aug 15, 2022, at 11:03 , Craig Newman via use-livecode >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I was not complete. Once the arrow

Re: Shouldn't space or enter in a menu select the hilited item?

te an item then use the space bar or return to select the >> hilited item, the hilited item is NOT selected, it retains it's previous >> label. >> >> Bob S >> >> >>> On Aug 15, 2022, at 11:03 , Craig Newman via use-livecode >>>

Re: Shouldn't space or enter in a menu select the hilited item?

Hi, I was not complete. Once the arrow keys have found the menuItem of interest, clicking Enter or Return executes the menuPick handler. Craig > On Aug 12, 2022, at 7:37 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi all. Very odd, I thought this worked. > > I am programmatically popping

Re: Shouldn't space or enter in a menu select the hilited item?

Hi. I am missing something. Make a popup menu button. Ina mouseUp handler in another button: on mouseUp click at the loc of btn 1 end mouseUp Once the menu is open, the up and down arrow keys navigate among the menuItems. Craig > On Aug 12, 2022, at 7:37 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: Datagrid internal error

Paul. All I saw was this: "I believe there is a property you set, after which you programmatically control the population of the datagrid. I am in a hurry so I can't look it up right now, but it is in the datagrid API in livecode lessons. Which is why I mentioned that the bulk of the thread m

Re: Datagrid internal error

This seems like a fragment of a longer thread, but the “dgText” and the “dgData” are the two methods I use to extract, process and reload the content of a data grid. Craig > On Aug 9, 2022, at 11:09 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > I believe there is a property you set, after wh

Re: Dispatch

Hi. “Send” and “Dispatch” do much the same thing, but they do differ in how they interact with the message patch. They also each include their own personal gadgetry that comes in handy in different scenarios. Read about both in the dictionary, and do some experimentation with both. Craig > On

Re: long id trap for the unwary

Neville. I know this thread has been broken into parts, but what exactly is your question? I made two stacks, The first with a button on it, and this in its script: on mouseup put the long id of field 1 of card 1 of stack "untitled 3" into fieldID put the long ID of the owner of fieldID into

Re: long id trap for the unwary

Klaus. You are correct; I missed that the “long iD” was used, and that expression includes the work “field”. LC can then use that as a valid reference. Craig > On Jun 28, 2022, at 5:38 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > You can find the definition of both send and dispatch in the

Re: long id trap for the unwary

I just glanced at this. Down at the very beginning, I noticed something odd. One cannot do anything with “the text" of a variable; that would not throw an error, but would always be empty, no? Craig > On Jun 28, 2022, at 3:49 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > I n

Re: How to color a "cell"?

Richard. I think this was discussed on the forum a while back. I do not believe you can do what you want without another control overlying the “rect” of the “cell”. Craig > On Jun 22, 2022, at 8:11 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > I need to set the backgroundColor of a comple

Re: my keyUp message has disappeared

I neglected to write the modified “keyUp” handler I am now using when I posted. it should read: > on keyUp x > answer x & random(99) > end keyUp in order to get that “x56” I mentioned. Craig > On Jun 21, 2022, at 2:16 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: >

my keyUp message has disappeared

This is summarized from a couple of threads in the forum: - The "keyUp"message has disappeared. This happened to me once before, several weeks ago, and trashing the prefs file fixed it. But now even that does not cut it. So a new stack in a new s

Re: Pointlist to Bezier?

There is a similar thread on the forum: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=34550 Craig > On Jun 14, 2022, at 8:54 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode > wrote: > > I found some well documented python code: > > • https://githu

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

Mark. Gong the other way, is your task made much simpler by losing “converOctals”? I assume so, or the issue would never have come up. Are there other similar language elements that also are on the block? Craig > On Jun 9, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > 1) No

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

I have never used an octal. But it well might break legacy handlers of others, however simple it is to write a custom function to replicate. Craig > On Jun 9, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Never use octal. pretty much any entries theses days are decimal or > h

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 225, Issue 4

Though it is true that “numToChar” and “charToNum” are deprecated, they still live and work the same as always. Old habits die hard, andI still use them. One day I will move on., but the original issue has not changed. Craig > On Jun 7, 2022, at 9:01 AM, Jean-Jacques Wagner via use-livecode

Re: Limit on the number of parameters?

I have never had any issues with the number of parameters that can be passed to a custom handler. Nor any issue with “seeing” them all in the debugger. I would say that the largest number of params I ever sent was about 15. Craig > On Jun 6, 2022, at 4:08 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: char as word boundary

Apart from omitting the “of” in any of your posted lines of code, I am confused.. The number of chars of any string of concatenated “numToChar” functions will be the number of those functions, that is, 5, since each returns a single character. How did you get any of the other results? Craig >

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi. Can you get the number of lines of the whole blob, if lines are pertinent, divide that number by 3, and search from there? Another words, if you had 1000 lines, divide by 3 and search from line 333 to 666. Craig > On May 16, 2022, at 1:46 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > wrote: > >

Re: Decrypting (and encrypting) Large files

board supports. on 32 bit > builds the limit is whatever the os will allow 1 process to have, > but then u need memory to store the decrypted data too. > you can use a command line program to outsource that work and memory > management. > > On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 9:44 AM Crai

Re: Re Pulldownmenu button bug on Windows

Richard. So glad to have you in this world. Craig > On May 7, 2022, at 5:35 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Well put. I wonder what the real world effect of the order of messages is, > and whether or not it could be compensated for by send in time? > > Sent from my iPhone > >

Re: Decrypting (and encrypting) Large files

I believe that there is no upper limit to the size of a variable in LC. So I am with Mike here. What makes you nervous about dealing with a large dataset within LC itself? Craig > On May 9, 2022, at 8:49 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > have you tried ti? i have not run into a s

Re: Pulldownmenu button bug on Windows

Hi. I will say again that the format of the forum is so much easier to work with. I made a pulldown and two fields, with these two handlers in the button script: on menuPick pItemName put pItemname into fld 1 end menuPick on mouseleave put random(999) into fld 2 end mouseleave On my Mac

Re: Curved text possible?

The polyLine character substitution will be a simple. Creation will be a bear, but only once. If you had “Hello World” and wanted to “curve” it, you would simply pull the appropriate curved chars, “H”,, “e’, “l, etc. and string them together. Uh oh, what about kerning? I hope this is a monospac

Re: Curved text possible?

How large is this curved text? You could certainly create an entire alphabet with polyLines, and insert them as needed to replace a body of text. But if you need 12 point size, those graphics are going to be, er, difficult to do nicely. Craig > On Apr 27, 2022, at 11:12 AM, William de Smet via

Single Window LC IDE?

Saw this on Kevin's keynote. Some parts of having such a thing, as opposed to a sea of separate palettes, are attractive indeed. But one aspect would prevent me from EVER upgrading to v10, and that is if the SE also had to be incorporated into that single window. Anyone know if this is in fa

Re: optionKeyDown message broken

Have not played with your handler, but why not just: on rawKeyDown tKey if the optionkey is down then answer numToChar(tkey) end rawKeyDown Craig > On Apr 21, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > on optionKeyDown pKeyName > if platform() = "MacOS" then > put n

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

So is this a video that I make beforehand and upload somewhere, or is it usually meant to be a live show? Craig > On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:28 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Me too. > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

h your talk Craig. > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:37 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> On 4/5/22 10:36, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> >>> >>> But I do use LC to control three very different mach

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

h talk on it. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 5 Apr 2022, at 18:38, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Heather. >> >> I probably am one of the oddest LC users. Entirely for either my own use or >> for my company. Only once did

Re: Confirm sort container order...

f words or items. whatever. Craig > On Apr 5, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 4/5/2022 10:58 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> The discussion may seem academic to some, and perhaps pointless to others. >> But I like this sort o

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

Heather. I probably am one of the oddest LC users. Entirely for either my own use or for my company. Only once did I sell a system commercially. But I do use LC to control three very different machines in our shop. Would it be of any interest to anyone to see one of these in operation? Regards

Re: Confirm sort container order...

; or "item i of each" or > "token i of each" or whatever, the multiple sort commands is the LC > recommended way to perform multi-level sort. > > > On 3/30/2022 4:16 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> I hate that one cannot edit previous posts he

Re: Confirm sort container order...

Time to check the forum. Bernd has made a very significant contribution. https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=36893 > On Apr 5, 2022, at 12:43 AM, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode > wrote: > > >> On Mar 30, 2022, at 2:16 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> sort lines o

Re: Tools & techniques for one-off consolidation of multiple 'similar' CSV files?

Hi. I rarely deal with the csv monster, but every time I have had to it all boiled down to the fact that a comma is a terrible character to use as a delimiter of ANY kind. Ideally it would be possible to simply replace every comma with a tab. The returns remain untouched. If that works, you ar

Re: Confirm sort container order...

. Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 5:16 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 3/30/2022 4:39 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> Paul >> >> I just reread your earlier post. Did you mean concatenating as if each line >> became a single long word? Th

Re: Confirm sort container order...

second precedence and so on. There is no limit to the number of terms permitted in the code. Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:39 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Paul > > I just reread your earlier post. Did you mean concatenating as if each line > became a s

Re: Confirm sort container order...

13 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> A way I have always used was developed back in the HC days. Assuming you >> have your list in the variable “yourList" >> >> sort lines of yourList by word 1 of each & word 2 of each & word 3 of each >> >>

Re: Confirm sort container order...

what you meant, and intended? Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:26 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 3/30/2022 4:13 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >> A way I have always used was developed back in the HC days. Assuming you >> have your list i

Re: Confirm sort container order...

I hate that one cannot edit previous posts here like we can on the forum. I meant “tabs”. not “tase”. Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Craig Newman wrote: > > I am assuming here that there are spaces separating the chars in your list. > The use of “words” will also delimit if those are ta

Re: Confirm sort container order...

I am assuming here that there are spaces separating the chars in your list. The use of “words” will also delimit if those are tase instead of spaces. But the method is worth exploring… Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 3:39 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > A B C > A A B > A B A > A A

Re: Confirm sort container order...

A way I have always used was developed back in the HC days. Assuming you have your list in the variable “yourList" sort lines of yourList by word 1 of each & word 2 of each & word 3 of each Nothing shows off the stable sort power of either HC or LC like that. Craig > On Mar 30, 2022, at 3:39

Re: New user

Yes, welcome. Please know that there are two principal venues for LiveCode discussion. The other one (my personal favorite) is at: https://forums.livecode.com > On Mar 30, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 3/30/2022 9:50 AM, Guillaume Hédieu via use-livecode wro

Re: Counting Syllables

I am actually having trouble finding a dictionary “dump” that would provide a list of words along with a syllabic entry attached. If such a thing exists, we only need a dozen lines of code and ten minutes to create a database mapping each word to its syllable count. Anyone know of such a resour

Re: Counting Syllables

wrote: > > Yes, that is where I’m at. An existing database would make things a lot > easier. > > Rick > >> On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> If you have a database at all, it would cost nothing much in speed to ju

Re: Counting Syllables

If you have a database at all, it would cost nothing much in speed to just use the whole thing all the time. Put the database into an array, of the form: “cat 1” "chicken 2” “elephant 3” ‘miaou 1" … The hard part is finding that database. It would take quite a while to build and finalize your ow

Re: There is no TextEdit.app???

Bob. There is no way that the uppercase/lowercase difference in a character in a literal can have that sort of effect. Are you saying you can duplicate this??? Craig > On Mar 22, 2022, at 7:01 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode > wrote: > > Damn, I took a long time formatting that message so

Re: Counting Syllables

gt; Rick > >> “miaou” is two syllables > >> On Mar 21, 2022, at 10:56 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> I would think one would need a database that maps all words with the number >> of syllables in those words. I am sure some sor

Re: Counting Syllables

I would think one would need a database that maps all words with the number of syllables in those words. I am sure some sort of algorithm would do a creditable job, but I bet it would not do a perfect job. For example, and embedded “eau” is usually one syllable, but a word such as “miaou” is two

Re: destroystack/destroywindow not working?

I have seen this on Mac forever. I actually do not believe the “destroy” family of features does anything at all. Craig > On Mar 21, 2022, at 8:21 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi all, > >> Am 21.03.2022 um 12:46 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode >> : >> I have a stac

Re: Windows 11 incompatible?

or Move in your language. > > >> On Mar 14, 2022, at 9:47 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Do I understand that, on Windows, typing those keys makes the frontmost >> window track the cursor??? > > _

Re: Windows 11 incompatible?

Hi. Do I understand that, on Windows, typing those keys males the frontmost window track the cursor??? Craig > On Mar 14, 2022, at 11:41 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is there a Macintosh equivalent to that?? > > Bob S > > >> On Mar 13, 2022, at 14:56 , Colin Holgate via

Re: Paste no closeField

> that would be one way to do it. I clean up anything I drag or type into > fields, stripping all but printable ascii because OCR PDF files contain a lot > of crap that wreaks havoc with databases. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 11, 2022, at 05:56, Craig Newman via

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 222, Issue 8

I play Scrabble, not Boggle. Regardless of which dictionary people use, there are many more words of 8 - 10 characters than of 4 - 6 characters. Craig > On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:25 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > > jacqui jawed, > > >> filter tHugeDict without regex pattern "[

Re: Paste no closeField

Hi. Why not use the “textChanged” message? That one would always fire if pasting text. Craig > On Mar 10, 2022, at 5:57 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > >> works with fields whose nam ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: Into the future

All. I am not sure I am following this thread correctly. Is the issue that some sort of certificate is now required for creating a standalone for desktop? Craig > On Feb 28, 2022, at 4:12 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode > wrote: > > Dealing with Apple certificates is the most onerous

Re: LC 9.6.6 oddities when showing/hiding text

Hi. Still annoyed at having to answer in the use-list as opposed to the Forum. I made a new stack with a button an a field. In the button script: on mouseUp hide fld 1 put "fld 1" into lFieldRef put “dissolve" into tEffect put "show "&lFieldRef&" with visual effect ""e&tEffect"e into tDo d

Re: Search & Replace

t;> Am 12.01.2022 um 20:00 schrieb Craig Newman via use-livecode >> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: >> >> What Jacque said. If not on a Mac, it is in the “Edit” menu, “Find and >> Replace”. > > I saw in the forum that Richmond is looking for the

Re: Search & Replace

What Jacque said. If not on a Mac, it is in the “Edit” menu, “Find and Replace”. Craig > On Jan 12, 2022, at 11:44 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you're in the script editor you'll see different menus and cmd-F will > bring up the editor's Find which appears between the s

Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

You can do this. In a button script; on mouseenter set the tooltip of me to random(999) end mouseenter Now every time you move the cursor into that button, you get a new integer when you hover. Craig > On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:38 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi David, >

Re: Can I still change LC code?

Tom. There was a pretty long thread here about modifying those dialogs. They are just stacks, after all, but the IDE is protective of them. I think the upshot was that you can hack anything, but better to roll your own. These would be just stacks, after all, and you can start with a clean slate

Re: Lost the variables and errors panel in script editor

I use a second monitor rotated to a tall vertical to hold the SE. In going from LC to other places and back again, or whatever, the SE sometimes hasty be reset in terms of its rect and topLeft. This always works just fine. When you get the SE back in shape, note both those properties and reset

Re: OT: Wordle

Ali. Smug as we Americans are, that is why we stick to our blinkered word list. There are just too many random strings of characters in CSW for our provincial taste. Craig > On Jan 7, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Ali. > > Thanks. &

Re: OT: Wordle

Error, TWL has over 9000 five-letter words > On Jan 7, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Ali. > > Thanks. > > I am joining a support group to help me stop playing, and get back to > Scrabble. > > But why limit the lexicon to so

Re: OT: Wordle

Ali. Thanks. I am joining a support group to help me stop playing, and get back to Scrabble. But why limit the lexicon to so few words? Even TWL has over 8000 five-letter words, and SOWPODS many more. Craig > On Jan 7, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Very nice!

Re: IDE behaviour MacOS

Hi. Do you mean sliders and scrollbars are missing from the tools palette? And an Answer dialog appears BEHIND a stack Cannot imagine any of this. I am on a Mac. What version OS? Craig > On Jan 4, 2022, at 12:35 PM, General 2018 via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi, > > On MacOS, If I cli

Re: Open socket on start up and can't close

Robert. "I have epsiTalk under Livecode.” Whaaat?? How much do you want for it? I would love to be able to talk to other running LC machines with a skillset that I already have. When I first picked up LC, I immediately tested “send to program” (a command in LC, as it ought to be, not a keywor

Re: Smile for Christmas.

Welsh and Gaelic both translate the same. Heather. What is the difference? Is it a Scotland thing? Craig > On Dec 17, 2021, at 1:01 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > >> Beth ydych chi'n ei olygu, fy ffrind? mae'r Gymraeg yn iaith hyfryd. Gyda >> dim ond y nifer cywir o lafariaid

Re: Smile for Christmas.

17, 2021, at 9:30 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode > wrote: > > Another super-useful and relevant scrabble word is EUOUAE, one of the > charmingly monikered 'vowel dumps'. Unfortunately not available in TWL so > only for UK scrabble play! > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2021

Re: Smile for Christmas.

I play a lot of scrabble. One of the most endearing short words (Scrabble is ALL about short words) in both the English and American lexicons is “CWM”, which is a forest hollow, is Welsh, and validates the old saw: “A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y and W”. Craig > On Dec 17, 2021, at 7:57 AM, H

Re: open socket on start up and can't close

Curry. Surely you are right. I just remember when HC was on the ropes, and wish that the LC Forum was so full of posts that I never have to do my actual job. I can just kibitz there all day long. It would mean that the world finally gets what LC offers. Craig > On Dec 16, 2021, at 11:16 AM, C

Re: open socket on start up and can't close

enues is the first thing I do in the morning. Craig > On Dec 16, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Curry. > > "A few regulars - but many others who work/lurk! :)" > > I see that. > > Robert Eppich, back in the ’90’s, way befo

Re: open socket on start up and can't close

Curry. "A few regulars - but many others who work/lurk! :)" I see that. Robert Eppich, back in the ’90’s, way before sockets, sold a product called “Epsitalk”. This was HC based, and essentially used the now deprecated “send message to program”. This was listed as a keyword, not a command, in

Re: open socket on start up and can't close

ROBERT EPPICH? If you are the person I think you are, do you know that I still manage a dozen OS9 Macs on a network using Hypercard and Epsitalk? Do you have other posts on either the LiveCode forums or this use-list? I have never seen your name... Craig Newman > On Dec 15, 2021, at 2:26 PM,

Re: Forum Down?

OK. All back to normal, Funny how annoyed I get when a modern miracle does not quite perform the way I want it to. Craig > On Dec 9, 2021, at 10:14 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Craig, > >> Am 09.12.2021 um 16:11 schrieb Craig Newman via use-liveco

Re: Forum Down?

Hmmm. Still cannot. Will wait a while and see… Craig > On Dec 9, 2021, at 10:14 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Craig, > >> Am 09.12.2021 um 16:11 schrieb Craig Newman via use-livecode >> : >> >> Could not connect as of last evenin

Forum Down?

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Fwd: screen resolution and stack height

Here is a neat article: https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-4-3-aspect-ratio/ > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Craig Newman via use-livecode > Subject: Re: screen resolution and stack height > Date: December 2, 2021 at 9:24:41 AM EST > To: How to use LiveCode

Fwd: screen resolution and stack height

Sloppy. My ratio is approx. 2:4 > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Craig Newman via use-livecode > Subject: Re: screen resolution and stack height > Date: December 2, 2021 at 9:24:41 AM EST > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Craig Newman > Reply-To: How to use LiveCod

Re: screen resolution and stack height

Hi. The 4:3 ratio, unless I completely do not understand any of this, is not pertinent to a desktop app. It was for viewing film and TV back in the day when there was much less flexibility in display screen technology. Much less. The monitors I see around me are all anything but 4:3. I have one

Re: variable window not applying changes

@Bernd. " double-click on the icon in the varialble line:” What icon? Do you mean the small box-with-arrow icon that appears when a multi-line variable is present in the lower list? @James. I am on a Mac, but have never had a change made in the external variable window (certainly a stack) th

Re: Annoying pop-up message

Or: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=35607&p=203599&hilit=lipo#p203599 Craig > On Nov 18, 2021, at 4:48 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > This can be caused by an installed prog

Re: Annoying pop-up message

Is this anything like the “Lipo” dialogs I get now every time I make a standalone? There is a thread on the Forum about this: https://forums.livecode.com/search.php?keywords=lipo Craig > On Nov 18, 2021, at 4:48 AM, matthias rebbe via use

Re: Count Up Timer?

t; >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >>> On 11/2/21 8:48 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: >>>> Mark. >>>> >>>> “... unless the person was born after 1 January 1970." >>>> >>>> Check out the t

Re: Count Up Timer?

Mark. “... unless the person was born after 1 January 1970." Check out the thread “When was the big bang?” on the forum: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=26619&p=138530&hilit=big+bang#p138530 Craig > On Nov 2, 2021, at 11:43 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 11

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